Media Traffic Specialist

Austin, TX (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end media trafficking and campaign operations across TV, radio, and digital for McJ, ensuring accurate execution and cross-team alignment.

  • Own end-to-end trafficking for linear TV and radio campaigns, aligning with flighting and buy details.
  • Must-have: Advanced knowledge of Mediaocean Prisma.
  • Standout: Power user across Mediaocean, AdFusion, DSPs and ad servers with playbook evolution.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with McJ brand team to receive and route client-approved creative assets, ensuring they match the media team’s buy details, including dayparts and flighting.
  • Own the daily end-to-end trafficking process for all linear TV and radio campaigns, moving away from a third-party model to a direct-to-station execution model.
  • Act as the primary operator within our Mediaocean Prisma ecosystem, ensuring the seamless flow of buy data, ISCI codes and reconciliation data.
  • Manage the generation and assignment of ISCI codes and use Comcast AdFusion to deliver assets to stations across the country.
  • Lead the charge on discrepancy resolution and post-air-date reconciliation to ensure our clients get exactly what they paid for.
  • Work closely with McJ brand team to receive and route client-approved creative assets.
  • Ensure creative assets meet platform specs and are versioned correctly by audience, format and placement.
  • Support the team in QA tagging, tracking, UTMs and naming conventions before launch.
  • Implement buy details accurately within DSPs/ad servers as needed.
  • Conduct prelaunch checks to confirm targeting, pacing and tracking integrity.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in media trafficking, campaign operations or media execution
  • Hands-on experience in broadcast environments
  • Advanced knowledge of Mediaocean Prisma (critical requirement)
  • Direct experience using Comcast AdFusion for spot trafficking and distribution
  • Familiarity with Nielsen market data and its application within media buying and trafficking
  • Familiarity with digital trafficking systems (DSPs, ad servers and social platforms)
  • Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills
  • Ability to manage multiple campaigns, markets and deadlines simultaneously
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and clear cross-team communication
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McGarrah Jessee

We’re McGarrah Jessee but our friends call us McJ. A fiercely independent, full-service creative shop. What’s our jam? We build brands that speak human through strategy that tells the truth, media that respects and creativity that entertains. The result turns people into fans. We work with companies we admire and clients with great taste.

Founded in 1996
Austin, Texas, USA
120 employees (73 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.7%
Direct
47.2%
Referral
5.7%
Social
16.8%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~120

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
42 (35% of company)

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